By Moise M. Bahati
President Paul Kagame and his DR Congo counterpart Felix Tshisekedi and the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held talks in Doha on Tuesday, March 18, as fragment of efforts to solve the crisis in jap DR Congo, according to the three international locations’ joint assertion.
The trilateral summit welcomed the event made in the Luanda and Nairobi processes, as correctly because the joint EAC-SADC summit held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on February 8, acknowledged the assertion published by the Qatari Distant places Ministry acknowledged.
Text of Joint Recount
“The Heads of State reaffirmed the commitment of all parties to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire as agreed at the [Dar es Salaam] summit.”
“The Heads of State then agreed on the need to continue the discussions initiated in Doha in order to establish solid foundations for lasting peace as envisioned in the Luanda/Nairobi process, now merged and/or aligned.”
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Rwanda has raised its concerns about DR Congo’s collaboration with the FDLR, a militia linked to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, as correctly because the Congolese president’s threats to descend Rwandan leaders over allegations that Rwanda helps the AFC/M23 rebels in jap DR Congo.
The UN-sanctioned FDLR terrorist neighborhood, which is fragment of the Congolese executive coalition against the AFC/M23 rebels, has driven persecution of the Congolese Tutsi community. During the final twenty years, the militia has also launched attacks on Rwanda.
Different regional and international efforts to bring peace in jap DR Congo saw momentum in January after the AFC/M23 rebels took regulate of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.
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The rebels gain since taken regulate pf Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu, as they demanded instruct talks with Tshisekedi’s executive, which had dominated out the doable of negotiations to finish the three-year warfare.
The first probability for instruct negotiations collapsed on Tuesday, after the rebels acknowledged Monday that sanctions by the European Union undermined the Angolan mediation and inspired the manager coalition to continue defense power operations.
The Angolan Distant places Ministry acknowledged on Tuesday that the peace talks had failed attributable to “force majeure circumstances.”
